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Show TiElARANl) HOME. PUfAL AND DOMESTIC TOPICS CAREFULLY CULLED. Tin""1' ' h Kconomlcal Farm Animal ! I Word About live Keeping llluU About Dyeing Farm and Household. The Mule on the Farm. j Those farmers who have had m ;st iperience with mules will concede tlat they are the most profitable for Jirm work. The following is a good estimate of tho mules on our Western .firms: "They are longer lived, less liable to balk, less liable to disease or i unsoundness, will stand rough treat- I ment better, have thicker hide and hair, consequently can stand cold storms better, aro less particular about their fare, and will eat weeds and j coarse grass that horses would refuse. Ho is less likely to run away, and, if he does run, don't get seared and kick tilings to pieces, but follows the road and stops when he thinks ho has gono far enough, and is no more likely to run again than if nothing had hap-, hap-, pened. he takes less grain but fully ns much rough feed as a horse, takes less slicking up, as he is only a mulo anyway. any-way. This is the good side; now let i;s go around and look on tho other Ride. A mule is very apt to be roguo-j roguo-j ish. Ho will jump fences, throw thein i lown, climb over or crawl through, I just as he pleases; therefore, when you I turn him in pasture you have no idea f where you will find him. It is owing f to how a farmer is situated which kind I of a team ho wants; if he employs all kinds of drivers, has steady work and U keeps his team up nights, he wants f mules. Hut if his team is driven by trusty drivers and can run on pasture a J part of the time, horses are much j more convenient." |